Shiny, narrow aperture, outer lip is thick, color band on surface, 3 weak fold on columella, elongated apex. The shell is thick, elongated and more or less cylindrically oblong, the posterior part of the body whorl being only very slightly inflated in proportion to the remaining parts. Spire is very small in proportion to the greatly enlarged body whorl and its lower whorls are strongly flattened so as to render the sides of the spire ridge like thickening of the adjoining parts of the whorls. The columella is thickened with callus and obliquely plicated below. The body whorl is produced into a prominent, beak like, projecting callosity posteriorly, bounding the small notch like posterior canal.

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